This is one of my all time favorite songs, since I was a kid roller skating around a tennis court while this song played on a tape in the boom box. The Andrews Sisters had a more famous version but I like this one better, by Gray Gordon.
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I’ll see your France Gall, and raise you one Sheila:
(I think I post this on BB every May. A little late this year.)
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We’re having a hot spell in Toronto
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Sam Cooke’s is my favorite version of that song.
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So the 80s can be old school, eh? Then how about one of my all-time favorite groups, Throwing Muses?
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You gotta ro-o-oll with the punches…
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I’d rather Roll on the River, punches fuckin’ hurt.
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Ya know, I’ve been trying to think of older music for this, but now I’m realizing that far too much of the older music I have is about lovers leaving, war protests, or otherwise definitely not what I’d classify as “feel good”. Even the love songs are talking about end-of-the-world kind of stuff. Sheesh.
Well, maybe this is good enough…?
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“It’s good enough for me.”
Ay-yai-yai…
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I can’t be the only one to play sad songs when I’m feeling good. Hearing Rosewood Casket or Cold Cold Heart just improves my mood. Maybe that’s why I like a lot of old-time country.
But there are older songs that are pure feel-good.
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Cant go wrong with the Tempts.
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Totes! Tipper so wasn’t ready for him to be literate…
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I remember watching a doc on Tipper’s futile crusade; there was an ally on the musicians side that no one saw coming, and whose rep was damn near sterling:
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Or roll with the changes:
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Definitely more doable and less painful than ‘punches.’
And now, of course, I have to:
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